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LONDON: Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover has announced plans to axe 400 more jobs in view of the current global economic downturn. "The company was considering axing between 300 and 400 manufacturing jobs by the end of January," JLR spokesman Mark Foster said. The plans have been announced to the company's 16,000-strong workforce that is currently facing short-time working and prolonged plant shutdowns. The 400 redundancies are on top of the 198 job losses JLR recently announced as part of its "annual efficiency drive".

LONDON: Production at Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) car plants in Britain was hit on Wednesday due to industrial action by supply chain workers over a pay dispute. Workers from the union Unite had voted in favour of 30-minute walkouts at the start of each shift. JLR said it is working to ensure that any disruption to production at the luxury car manufacturing units is "minimised". "Jaguar Land Rover is disappointed that DHL Unite members have decided to take industrial action today.

NEW DELHI: Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover plans to hire over 500 engineers and designers by March 2013, taking the total strength of R&D people to over 5,500, to support its new product development programme. In a filing to the US-based Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mumbai-based Tata Motors said its British subsidiary may look for possibility of assembling of more models in India in addition to the existing sports utility vehicle Freelander and luxury sedan XF. Meanwhile, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR)

LONDON: Indian conglomerate Tatas-owned luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover is reviewing earlier plans to close one of its UK plants on account of a recent revival in sales and and is also likely to seek the UK government's assistance for launching new models, says a media report. UK-based The Sunday Times has reported that Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is "weighing a dramatic about-face on plans to close one of its three UK production plants". Quoting sources close to the carmaker, the publication said a recent revival in sales coupled with the arrival of a new management team "has led to a review of the closure plan".

MUMBAI: Jaguar Land Rover, the premium UK car brand that Tata Motors recently acquired, said on Thursday it is cutting around 200 jobs across its three plants in the UK. The car maker, which employs about 15,000 people in the UK, is seeking voluntary redundancies from its Halewood plant as well as other plants in central England at Castle Bromwich and Solihull, as part of an annual planning programme. Incidentally, a few weeks back, JLR announced it would stop production at Halewood for a week from October 27. JLR, which is owned by Tata Motors, said the production cuts were not connected to the slump in car sales or to the economic slowdown.

LONDON: Tata Group firm Jaguar Land Rover employees have agreed to a one-year pay freeze and a four-day week to save their jobs currently threatened by falling sales and economic downturn. The JLR workers accepted the cost-saving measures in a ballot conducted by unions GMB and Unite involving 15,000 workers. Seventy per cent of the union members accepted the measures that will save JLR 70 million pounds a year. A joint statement by Unite and the GMB said, "Our members in JLR deserve better - much better.

LONDON: Tata Group-owned Jaguar Land Rover today said it has scrapped plans to close one of its three factories in the UK after an agreement was reached with the worker's union. "The agreement, which trade unions representing the Jaguar Land Rover workforce will unanimously recommend to their members, sees Jaguar Land Rover revising its plans to consolidate manufacturing operations," the company said in a statement. Subject to employees endorsing this deal over the next few weeks, Jaguar Land Rover will now retain three plants in the UK -- at Castle Bromwich, Solihull and Halewood -- building Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles, it added.

LONDON: Employee unions have reached a key framework agreement with the beleaguered Tata Motors-owned Jaguar land Rover that would prevent compulsory job losses in the near future. The company has been buffeted by the falling sales and credit crunch, and has sought help from the British government ensure continued supply of credit. The agreement reached yesterday safeguards the shopfloor jobs of over 800 hourly-paid workers and 300 salaried staff at JLR plants at Castle Bromwich, Solihull and Halewood.

MUMBAI: Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has reversed its plans to close one of its factories in the UK securing the long-term future of significant number of jobs in the British automobile industry. The automobile firm, owned by Tata Motors , on Friday said it will now retain all the three plants in the UK after it reached a deal with unions. Its plans are located in Castle Bromwich, Solihull and Halewood. The luxury carmaker also said it would significantly increase the number of models in its range and create 1,500 jobs at Halewood to support the launch of the new Range Rover Evoque.

LONDON: Tata Motors is living up to its reputation as one of Britain's biggest manufacturing employers and is set to add hundreds of new jobs at one of its UK plants. Just days after the news came that Japanese car major Honda was to cut 800 jobs at its Swindon factory, Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will announce just as many new jobs at its Solihull plant in the Midlands. JLR already employs as many as 24,000 people in the UK. According to a news report, an announcement of the latest recruitment drive is expected in time for the Detroit Motor Show which begins tomorrow.